EMMA Hickey, the reigning Defender/Irish Pony Club senior girls’ National Tetrathlon Champion, won a bronze medal in the Under 20 women’s category at last weekend’s SPAR European Cross-Country Championships in Lagoa, Portugal.

Emma, who was making her championship debut, is a longtime member of the Wexford Branch of the IPC for which she won national individual and team titles in Minimus and Junior Tetrathlon and also represented the IPC, and Ireland, in Britain at both levels.